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I saw an internet joke once it was something along the lines of a parent back in the 60's: Mom brings the kid, puts him in the back seat, dad lights up a victory cigarette because he's got a son, drive home.
Parents now: Mom straps the baby into the baby seat, blankets everywhere, stroller packed in the back, checking on the kid every 2 seconds, carries him into the house like he's a piece of glass lol.

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I saw an internet joke once it was something along the lines of a parent back in the 60's: Mom brings the kid, puts him in the back seat, dad lights up a victory cigarette because he's got a son, drive home.
Parents now: Mom straps the baby into the baby seat, blankets everywhere, stroller packed in the back, checking on the kid every 2 seconds, carries him into the house like he's a piece of glass lol.

Damn I wish I could find that.

Yeah. I think it's ridiculous. You'd be hard pressed to find a pic of my mom when she was pregnant with me that she doesn't have a beer on her belly and a cigarette in her mouth, and I turned out.

Hey, I'm a Chiefs fan. Aaron Rodgers could wear a skunk that had been dead a week from being drowned in a blue room on his face and I would give him a piggyback ride from Green Bay to Arrowhead tomorrow.

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he was having dinner with Dennis Pitta (Ravens) and Joe's brother who was growing a mustache and they laughed and said it would be funny for Joe to do it and Dennis wanted in as well. they were playing well and funny thing is it made the news and a big deal out of nothing, so he kept it.

And Joe isn;t the best but not as bad as the media makes him out to be.

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i've had a similar task for the past week. everyone is too busy to actually sit down to talk about the flyer, but they want it ASAP

"There's something about turning the pages of a book or magazine and the felling of rubbing your hands across the words."

This is my pen tool. There are many like it, but this one is MINE. My pen tool is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My pen tool without me is useless. Without my pen tool, I am useless.

there is no grey area when it comes to 1 color logos.

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I have corrections given to me over the phone...as she tried to figure out what needs changing. and email with changes when she realizes what they are would be so much quicker than "ummm, let's see....i guess, what do you think?..."

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I was asked to put together a five slide set in which each slide would contain data on how an employee assistance program has been of benefit to five different companies. This slide set will be used outside of our company to woo potential clients for something or other. Sales guy calls me and says he wants the company logos on each slide (including companies like Chevron and Campbell's Soup). I've read him the riot act about copyright infringement before, so he says, "Will you do this or should I do it because you're uncomfortable with it?"

I explain that theft is theft no matter who does it and he could easily contact each company to get permission. He said, "No. That's too much effort for this project. How about we use photographs of their signs? That'd work, right?"

I explain that no, that would actually add another copyright element, as he'd then have to worry about violating the rights of the person who took the photo. He says, "But it's not a professional photo. Just something a Joe Blow took. And they're all over the Internet! I googled it."

Now I explain that a photo on the Internet isn't free game and actually had to use an example of one of his family photos being googled and used without his knowledge or consent before he understood. "Besides," I added, "do you want to use Joe Blow photos on a professional presentation?" "Oh."

So now that I've burst his bubble on several levels, it's up to me to offer a solution. I start brainstorming ideas on data presentation using items related to each field (soup spoon percentage levels, gas pump chart markers, etc.) and actually generated some decent ideas. He said, "No. Just find photos of stuff. You know, an oil refinery. Soup." *sigh*

So I agreed and said, "Send me the data and I'll come up with something you can pick apart." He said, "Oh, now you're calling me a pain in the @ss?" Wtf?

I told him no, I say that to everyone because it's often difficult to really know what you want to see until you can look at what you don't want. He said, "Oh. Okay, yeah, you never get it quite right the first time, do you? Hey, did you know that the shape in the Chevron logo is called a chevron? Amazing."